Christian Kurz writes: > On 04/11/01, Matthew Vernon wrote: > > Erm. Why? debian-qa exists to improve the quality of Debian - to deal > > with bugs that are causing maintainers problems, to NMU packages that > > developers aren't dealing with for whatever reason. There's more to it > > That's only a part of QA and not the only thing that affects the quality > of a distribution. Having useful and consistent package descriptions is > also part of the quality of a distribution. Agreed, agreed. > > than just dealing with orphaned packages. We don't have any more > > Which hopefully moves to an extra list and therefor an extra group > taking care of this. Orphaned packages are not directly an issue for the > QA, since they can have a high quality still. Indeed. Historically, debian-qa have been the people who deal with orphaned packages - there are moves to make the BTS-generated traffic from those packages go elsewhere, to reduce the noise level a bit (I don't really need to know that someone else has uploaded a new version of $package); I wonder if we didn't do it, whether anyone would.
[GNOME/Qt Vs. Gnome/QT] > > You clearly see it as a serious issue; to me it seems a cosmetic thing > > - it would be good to fix it, but we don't want to go using up a lot > > of time and effort over it. I think -devel is the place to get broad > > And that's why I thaught that issue and the best solution which one the > hand fix it and on the other hand doesn't need much effort should be > discussed here. Fair enough; there seems to be general agreement that filing wishlist bug reports would be a sensible initial approach (though there seems to be some disagreement as to who should do it, and whether -devel should be told). Personally, I don't think it makes a huge amount of difference who files the bug reports (I'm not sure a From: line of debian-qa would be helpful, personally, but I could be persuaded); as to telling -devel, I'm not sure if that'd make much difference - it just seemed the natural thing to do to me. > But now I learned that my understanding of quality > doesn't compare well with the one of other developers and that I better > shut up and never mention anything anymore in here. Sorry? You were disagreed with, that's all. Disagreement!=personal attack. Certainly, the comment about needing more sleep was unhelpful, but you seem to be over-reacting a little to me. > > You aren't prepared to send mail to -devel? Gosh. I don't read it very > > often, but I send mail there from time to time... > > Sorry, but if you don't know my reasons for not sending anymore an > e-Mail to -devel, then would you please stop attacking me? Where have I attacked you? I might have disagreed with your opinions, but that's not an attack, is it? Matthew -- Rapun.sel - outermost outpost of the Pick Empire http://www.pick.ucam.org
